One evening, deep in the maintenance sub-basement where the old terraforming tech hummed in lonely isolation, Jax found it. It was a small crate, unmarked, wedged behind a broken desalination unit. The bio-lock was old, but his maintenance key card, covered in grime, slid through the reader with a chirp .
Faster, he thought.
Jax didn't wait for permission. He moved toward the airlock. Usually, the heavy blast doors felt like pushing against a mountain. Today, his hand hit the release, and the door hissed open with a speed that startled him. He stepped out into the crushing atmosphere of Kepler-186f.
He looked at the vial. It was contraband. High-risk. If the med-scanners picked it up, he’d be thrown out the airlock for "bio-contamination."
"Suit up!" Kael roared. "Heavy squad, with me! We take the Rover."
One evening, deep in the maintenance sub-basement where the old terraforming tech hummed in lonely isolation, Jax found it. It was a small crate, unmarked, wedged behind a broken desalination unit. The bio-lock was old, but his maintenance key card, covered in grime, slid through the reader with a chirp .
Faster, he thought.
Jax didn't wait for permission. He moved toward the airlock. Usually, the heavy blast doors felt like pushing against a mountain. Today, his hand hit the release, and the door hissed open with a speed that startled him. He stepped out into the crushing atmosphere of Kepler-186f. g+ fast runner
He looked at the vial. It was contraband. High-risk. If the med-scanners picked it up, he’d be thrown out the airlock for "bio-contamination." One evening, deep in the maintenance sub-basement where
"Suit up!" Kael roared. "Heavy squad, with me! We take the Rover." Faster, he thought